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mysteriesahoy.com
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| | | | | A Surprise for Christmas was the fourth anthology of festive short stories published by the British Library. Like its predecessor volumes, this attempts to show different writing styles and approaches to a common theme. It also combines some familiar names, such as G. K. Chesterton and Margery Allingham, with a few more obscure ones. | |
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classicmystery.blog
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| | | | | After making a mention of Hercule Poirot's Christmas a couple of posts back, it occurred to me that it'll be a while before I get round to any of the Belgian detective's exploits. So, given that he and Miss Marple are the best known of the classic detectives (I'll try and get round to explaining... | |
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books-forlife.blogspot.com
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| | | | | A blog specializing in book reviews | |
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readingmattersblog.com
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| | | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... | ||